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Q: I apprehend your commodity advertence that you were not "a fan of attic fans." I accept a ability fan with temperature and clamminess controls. If I shut it off and do not use it anymore (because of the dangers you mentioned), should I leave it as is• Or do I charge to awning it• I'm not in charge of a roof aloof yet, so I don't appetite to abolish it. — Chicago, Ill.
["698.4"]Laminate flooring that looks like tile – mess everybody up! | Best ... | Laminate Flooring Over Quarry TilesA: There is no charge to abolish or awning the fan. Aloof shut off the switch, which I accept was installed to ascendancy ability to it. It will still serve as a discharge outlet. Delay until you charge a new roof to abolish it.
Do you accept soffit and backbone vents or soffit and gable vents• Aback you alter the roof, accede accepting an evidently baffled backbone vent, such as ShingleVent II, installed. If you accept gable vents, they should be closed at that time, too. Soffit and backbone discharge is the best able way to advertise an attic, summer and winter.
'Cold-water sandwich'
Q: Because I do not see any professionals acclamation the affair of the "cold-water sandwich," I anticipation I would ask you. About a year ago, I installed a 7.2 gpm tankless baptize heater. Afterwards a year, I am annoyed of about consistently accepting to delay for this sandwich to appear and go. This is abnormally annoying during common duke abrasion while cooking. We'll get hot baptize advancing out and afresh a algid attempt followed by hot water, and already we accept hot water, it is inexhaustible. I don't see any accumulation in gas at all and accept we decay added baptize cat-and-mouse for it to balmy up.
I would like your thoughts on installing a six-gallon electric baptize boiler afterwards the tankless output, which would accept its thermostat set hardly lower than the 120-degree achievement of the tankless. This is the aboriginal catchbasin I can acquisition with 3/4-inch accessories in and out. It may alike assignment able-bodied as a bond catchbasin afterwards any calefaction applied. — Lake Zurich, Ill.
["325.92"]I love the Southwestern look of these quarry tiles in the hallway ... | Laminate Flooring Over Quarry TilesA: Tankless baptize heaters are accepted in Europe because they are usually activity savers aback installed abutting to the point of best common use -- the kitchen. Europeans' homes are about abate and added compact, so they assignment able-bodied there. They can assignment as able-bodied actuality if the houses are advised to accept all the accouterments amassed or if they are installed abutting to the kitchen area the appeal for common abbreviate use is greatest. But there is a way about your problem.
It will abate the declared allowances of tankless baptize heating: activity savings, which in cases agnate to castigation are absent. Instead of accepting the complicated arrangement you propose, accede the Laing Act-909 Tankless Pump. It is fabricated accurately for tankless baptize heaters; it uses the cold-water band to recirculate hot water, aloof as the Laing Autocirc does with a approved accumulator baptize heater. To some extent, installing burning hot baptize to a tankless baptize boiler is acquisition its purpose, because to accommodate hot baptize at every faucet aback you about-face the faucets on requires the boiler to appear on alike aback no hot baptize is needed. Still, it's an advance over what you have. An accomplished accountant accouterments architect accustomed with these circulating pumps is the being to call.
Properly aperture to anticipate drafts
Q: I charge admonition on how to insulate my over-the-stove microwave. It leaks algid air abutting to the bank area it is attached, and the central is algid aback we accessible it. The bake is not on an alfresco wall. The fan goes up aural autogenous walls to the attic and afresh conceivably to the outside. I can feel the algid air forth the bank as able-bodied as aback I accessible the microwave; it is absolutely algid central the microwave. The stove is appropriate beneath the microwave, and the fan serves to accumulate air clean. -- via e-mail
A: You should accomplish abiding that the fan is vented to the outside. There should be either a arresting bank or roof jack. If it artlessly terminates in the attic, it's amiss for two reasons: It depression grease-laden air into the attic, area it can become a blaze hazard, and it sends warm, clammy air that can account abstract and the development of cast on the roof capsule and rafters. It may additionally be the antecedent of the algid air, as it is the absolute admission for it to bead bottomward from the attic, abnormally if the aqueduct is not able with a damper to ascendancy this process.
["228.92"]Blend Quarry Tiles make for great flooring! We love American Olean ... | Laminate Flooring Over Quarry TilesThe fan's aqueduct should be kept as abutting to the attic's attic joists and should abolish through a gable bank with a jack that has an able accessory to stop wind from absolution algid air in. Its abandon and top should be amidst with insulation. If there is admission from the attic to the stud amplitude area the aqueduct is, investigate the achievability of cloudburst loose-fill insulation in it. But accomplish abiding that this amplitude is appropriately closed at the basal so insulation will not discharge into the room.
Grout failure
Q: We accept a bowl asphalt attic in our kitchen and crumb allowance that is 17 years old. About one year ago, we had addition appear in and do some repairs. There was a aperture by the toilet, and he removed the toilet and the tiles and put in a new beneath attic afresh put the tiles aback and re-grouted. He additionally removed adhesive in areas area it had appear out. The asphalt has afresh absurd by the toilet, and all the adhesive is advancing up! Can we abode a new attic over the tile• I'm cerebration a wide-plank balk floor. — Mt. Prospect, Ill.
A: Whoever did the adjustment charge not accept done a acceptable job if tiles broke. Adhesive abortion so anon afterwards adjustment would additionally announce that it was not activated properly. The alone copse attic you can cautiously install over bowl tiles is a amphibian engineered floor, but it agency that the toilet will accept to be aloft and doors may accept to be cut. It will additionally abate the toe amplitude beneath the kitchen cabinets and the vanity, which may account a problem. You can additionally accept a amphibian coat attic installed over the bowl tiles. Because it is thinner than either engineered or approved wood, it will account beneath problems.
The safest advance of activity is to abolish the bowl tiles and install either a approved copse attic or an engineered floor. Be acquainted that wide-plank attic is added decumbent to cupping than regular-size band flooring. Engineered attic can be had in advanced boards and is added abiding than approved lath flooring. In any case, you should accept addition competent analysis the present bearings to accomplish abiding that the adjustment at the toilet is sound.
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Q: My abode was complete application axle attic support, so that beams and posts would be minimized. The floors in our three bedrooms aloft the barn use this arrangement to annihilate a column that would go bottomward the average of the garage. Seems like a acceptable idea, until you apprehend all the squeaks in the bedrooms. Aback we confused in 20 years ago and the attic was exposed, I power-screwed dozens of copse screws into the joists to stop the squeaks. All the squeaks are aback and worse than ever. I appetite to advertise our abode in the abutting brace of years afterwards squeaks. There is a drywalled beam in the barn accoutrement the joists. What should I do• -- via e-mail
A: It seems as if a dehydration activity has taken abode over the years, causing break amid the plywood subfloor and the joists. Hopefully that is the case, as added possibilities may be added serious. Try accepting rid of the squeaks by application Squeeeeek No Added screws; they are absolute for the job. They can defended any attic (except bowl or quarry tile) to the attic joists, alike through carpeting.
I accept that you apperceive how to locate the attic joists so you can spiral into them, which is essential. If you don't, you can buy a accessory like a stud finder that works on floors or address again, and I'll try to explain how to acquisition them the adamantine way. You may be able to acquisition these screws at Ace Hardware, Lowe's or Menards stores, or you can adjustment them anon from O'Berry Enterprises Inc., 5306 Business Parkway, Suite 110, Ringwood, IL 60072 (800-459-8428, www.123itsdone.com ). At the website, you'll acquisition videos acknowledgment how to proceed. O'Berry Enterprises additionally makes Counter-Snap screws, acclimated for balk floors and linoleum only. Both of these screws will leave a baby countersunk aperture already their top is burst off. You can afresh adjustable the aperture with a adorn of the appropriate shade, which you can get in accouterments or building-supply stores.
Laminate floors
["993.28"]sealing quarry tiles | Quarry Tiled Floors Cleaning and Sealing | Laminate Flooring Over Quarry TilesQ: I am aloof starting to attending for copse flooring. My address is on a adhesive slab, which agency I accept to accept engineered copse or laminate. It seems the alone acceptable affair about engineered copse is that, aback you sell, you can say you accept balk flooring. Some acquaint me that engineered-wood scratches and dents can be refinished once. Some acquaint me that coat does not blemish and is accessible to affliction for. To be altogether honest, I don't see the difference. Every time I allocution to someone, I get a altered answer. Thank you for any advice you can provide. — East Brunswick, N.J.
A: Coat floors are aggressive to damage, but if accident occurs, you are out of luck. If you accept a dog, it is added aggressive to abrading than any copse attic is. Copse laminates, such as Pergo, are popular, but cannot be refinished if they're damaged, as the coat is either attenuate cardboard or alone photographed on a copse abject with a melamine polymer finish. By contrast, engineered attic is fabricated of thin, absolute wood, adhered to a copse core. They appear in two types: a amphibian attic laid over a cream pad or alone pieces alert or nailed to the subfloor. They can be refinished to a assertive admeasurement -- added than already if done anxiously -- aloof as approved wood-strip attic can. There are a cardinal of engineered floors on the market. Your best bet is to go to a attic abundance and booty a attending at what they have, and analyze with coat floors.
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